"Sir. The Consumer has arrived at the planet called Equestria." A guard informed the king.

"Good. Keep an eye on it. When it absordes anything unusual, let me know right away." They all saluted and went back to their stations. King N looked at the screen showing the scan is consumed matter that it absorded. Waiting to see if the heart bearer was on the planet.

"Daniel...what is that?" Shining asked but Daniel didn't move. He was still as a statue and staring at it. "Daniel!" Shining hit him with some magic which snapped him out of it. "What is that?"

"You don't want to know." Looking at Shining and the Crystal empire in the distance he knew this was something he had to do. Handing Sombra over to Shining, he told him to go back to the empire.

"Will you be alright?"

"In all honesty. I don't know." Handing Sombra over to Shining, he looked up at the Consumer which was slowly approaching. He had a little time to think over how he would destroy it but not long. From the looks of the way it was growing, he had 10 minutes max till it started to destroy the planet. As he looked up at it he did his best to stop himself from shivering as this was a nightmare come to life for him. But this time he wouldn't run. He would destroy this thing or die trying.

He thought over how he would defeat it as he didnt know if it has anything physical. Was it all just pure energy or was there some kind of solid core? Never the less he needed to do something so the best thing he could think of was to do a test. Firing a beam at it he saw the moment it impacted it, the beat turned purple and broke appart before the purple shards all fell towards it. It seems like it destroys any matter that touches it or breaks it down.

"What about a shield?" He asked himself and tried to put up a barrier that was visable in the sky but the moment it touched it, the whole barrier broke appart and fell into it. "How do i stop this thing?" Daniel felt his fear swelling back up in him. If he failed this time then Equiestria, a world that was so innocent would be destroyed.

Nature was looking at him from a good distance away. This was one of the most important times he would ever have. If he failed here then goodness knows what it would do to his mentally but knowing him he would stay to the the end so he might also die if he fails. She knew it would be better if he did this himself but as she saw him struggle the way he did at the start, she felt a strong desire to help him which she needed to suppress.

"Should we get to a place further back?" Blade asked and they agreed. They moved to the top of the Crystal tower and continued to watch what was unfolding.

Shining returned to the Crystal empire, carrying a now unconcious Sombra on his back. The Crystal ponies looked on in fear which quickly changed to confusion when they saw the state that Sombra was in.

"Twily!" Shining shouted.

"Over here Shining!" He ran over to her. "What's happening? Where's Daniel and...why is he here?" She shot off quickly.

"I have no clue. When that...thing showed up, Daniel told me to leave. But the fear i saw in his eyes. It's the kind of fear i have seen is soldiers who have seen death. Now come on. We need to put Sombra away in a dungon or something." Heading to the palace he wasted no time locking Sombra up and heading to the throne room where Twilight and her other friends were.

Back in Canterlot Luna continues to look on hopeful. Hopeful to see whatever that thing was be destroyed. She didn't know what it was as in how it was made, but she did know it was a planet killer.

"Sister. We wish to head to the Crystal empire."

"Why Luna? Do you know what that is?"

"We have seen some of Daniel's dreams. That thing wiped out his own planet. If it is here then we must take every action to stop it." Celestia waited for a moment before nodding.

"I'll get the teleportation spell ready. You get the elements of harmony." Luna ran towards the vault and opened it with her magic. She was happy to see the elements were still there.

"What did i do this time?" She recognized that voice. It was Discord who was currently sunbathing on the ceiling.

"Discord. Why are you here?"

"I put a detection spell on that door. So Luna, what have i done this time? I have been a good boy." He said as he turned into a dog and darked happily at her.

"Enough Discord. This isnt about you. Look outside." Discord turned back to normal and done just that. He too was almost taken aback by what he saw in the sky. "We need all the help we can to stop this thing. Whatever it is, if it isn't stopped then all of Equestria is as good as gone." Discord looked at Luna and then back at the sphere in the sky. With a sigh he agreed, even if he didn't like it.

"Fine. What must i do?"

"Come with me and my sister to the Crystal empire."

Luna arrived back in the throne room with Discord shortly after. She was delighted to see that Celestia had set up the spell. Standing together they fired up the spell to go to the Crystal Empire. The noise of the teleportation made Cadance jolt awake from her sleep.

"I'm awake! I'm awake!" She screamed as he spell failed for a few moments. She then had a nervious smile on her face when she saw Celestia. Getting caught sleeping on the throne was not seen as professional for a ruler.

"Cadence. Where is Twilight an-"

"Celestia!" Twilight called out as she ran up to her, throwing herself at her in a hug.

"Twilight. Thank goodness you're alright. Where's Daniel?"

"Shining left to get him not long ago. We might be able to find them if we hurry." Discord was looking out the window, up to the dark sphere which was slowly approtching. To say that the sight was unnerving would be an understatement. He felt a tug at his leg and looked down to see Fluttershy looking up at him.

"Is there anything you can do?" Discord looked back up at it and snapped his finger but nothing happened. Discord looked confused and tried again but nothing happened. "Discord?" She asked worriedly.

"Thanos made this look easy. Perhaps if I put the jewels that make up the elemental into a gauntlet. That might do it."

"Who's Thanos?" Fluttershy tilted her head cutely at him

"Never mind that. Just someone I met while exploring." He waved it off

"Discord!" Luna called out as they saw them at the door to the throne room, they were leaving and each had their elements on them. Fluttershy was the last to put hers on. "We will need you. This is your home too. Help us defend it." Discord flew alongside Fluttershy as they all made their way outside and down the streets of the empire.

The Crystal ponies were not fairing any better than everyone else. If fact they were worse off than others as while others looked at the sky scared and some curious. They were in their houses, doors and windows closed and locked.

"Can you do anything to stop it?" Shining asked as he saw the sphere was almost touching the ground as the clouds that it touched overhead were evaporated into it.

"I have no idea what to do." Daniel said to him as he prepaired a stronger blast but just like before, the moment it hit it, the blast broke appart like glass and fell into it. Daniel's brain started thinking of many situations and things that he could try. Was it based on matter? Would he need to use something other than matter to fight it? He didnt know if he even could. Was it based on power alone and could he overpower it?

So many things ran though his mind, trying to think of a way to stop it. Looking back at Shining, his heart sank. There was no excuse this time. If he failed then he would have nobody to blame but himself. He couldn't tell Shining to run, there was nowhere to run against this thing for him and the others. And teleporting a planet while he was untrained in it was something Daniel wouldn't dare to do. Even if he could he would need to find a new star for them, find the goldilock zone and push the planet fast enough for an orbit to happen. There was no time for that. It was now or never.

"Shining. Find Twilight. If i can't stop this thing, spend the last moments with her that you can." Daniel saw Shining was about to object, but when he saw his eyes he didn't say anything and started to run back only to stop when he saw Celestia and the others approtching.

"Princess!" Daniel looked behind him to see his friends and the princesses all together with Discord. They had the Elements of harmoney, but Daniel doubted that they would do anything.

"Shining!" Twilight threw herself on him. Wrapping him in a tight hug.

"Nice to...see you again." Shining said with a lack of breath. "Daniel! What is this?" Twilight let Shining go as he gasped a few times and walked up beside him.

"This is what destroyed my home." Their eyes widened when they heard that.

"Do you know of any weaknesses this thing has?" He shook his head.

"Not a one."

"Well let's try the Elements out." She said confidentally.

"Twilight, i don't think that..." He looked at her hopeful face and didn't want to be the one to shatter the hope she had. "Fine." Each one got their own elements on and Daniel got his on, still finding it silly wearing such a small crown.

"Ready?" Twilight said. As even the princesses and Discord lined up beside them. The elements lit up and Daniel braced himself for them to fail as they fired. He saw Luna, Celestia and Discord also fire magic beams which along the path, merged with the beam the elements made.

When it collided with the Sphere something happened that even he didn't expect. While he did expect the beam to be broken like the attacks previously that hit it, he didnt expect the elements to also shatter with the beam. The girls and Discord watched in horror as the elements were shattered and evaporated into dust. Flying up and becoming part of the sphere.

"The...elements are....gone." Twilight was shivering out of fear.

"What do we do now? This can't be the end." Pinkie was on the verge of crying. Her mane deflated into a flat hair rather than a poofy one. Daniel knew it would take a while for this thing to consume Equestria, so they still had time and the place they were in was almost the touchdown area.

"Get back to the Empire." Daniel told them.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. As much as i hate to brag like this, you know i am the only one who has a shot to destroy this thing." They couldn't deny that what he said was true. He was the best shot they had to stopping this thing. Twilight as the others left to head back while Daniel stayed where he was. He wasn't going to retreat this time. "There must be a way to destroy this thing."

Back at the Empire Sombra regained some of his magic and used it to heal his injuries. He was in the empire and getting out of the prison would be easy. Opening a secret door that he installed just incase he was overthrown, he made his way upward and opened a panel which lead to the streets. He was both happy and annoyed to see they were abandonded as he would need to hunt down the ponies in their houses.

"Why are things never easy?" Looking in the Distance he saw a dark sphere in the sky that he didn't like the look off. Everypony was probably away dealing with that, which meant he had the opportunity he was looking for. Pulling out the mind control helmet, he laughed.

Walking up to one door, the pony who answered was quickly taken over by his helmet and went to the others, putting the helmets on them. Within a few minutes he had a good number of ponies under his control. This stopped when he saw a figure he recognized easily. Celestia was approaching.

"Hide." He ordered them as he saw the Princesses and other mares with them approtch. All the ponies under his control moved to the sides and hid themselves from sight until the princesses passed.

"Get the rest. We will need all the ponies of the empire together." He ordered as his servents went to other houses and he soon heard screaming coming from them which was soon silenced.

Daniel felt more uneasy with each passing moment as the sphere got closer, looking to the side of him he saw a large mountain and his heart sank when he saw the top start to evaporate. It was now touching the surface, meaning he had to deal with it before more distruction happened. A thought crossed his mind, perhaps it could detect attacks approaching it so a load of attacks in quick succession could perhaps confuse it and some might damage it. Firing a barrage of beams at it he hoped for some kind of sign that showed a weakness but he saw no such sign.

Daniel started to move back so he could keep on attacking as it got closer. He tried a multitude of attacks. From barriers to beams to blasts and even space and matter manipulation but nothing worked. Everything that was thrown at it just broke down.

"I...i..." Daniel said as his fear started to take over from courage. "I won't give up. Equestria is counting on me." Memories of Earth flashed in his mind and so did memories of his time in Equestria. He started to feel his anger boil up again. "I won't lose another home." Daniel put up another barrier and he kept pooling his energy into it, and to his great delight, the sphere crashed against it. He saw the part of the barrier that was touching the sphere and it was breaking down but the energy he was pooling into it meant it kept regrowing.

"I...can do." He said with a smile on his face as he lifted up his hands and in a closing motion he put up a barrier around the entire sphere. The barrier held. Daniel was sweating from the amount of energy he was using but he now knew he had a way to sort of combat it.

Closing his fingers into fists, he tried to crush the Consumer but it couldn't seem to no matter how hard he pressed as it wouldn't collapse into it. This is when he saw a flicker of light from the sphere and it changed into a darker shade of black and expanded. His barrier was broken and Daniel felt his hands blister as the energy surged out of control.

Looking up at the sphere he soon felt a sharp pain as his shoulder was hit by something. Looking at his shoulder he saw...a bullet?

The bullet dropped to the snow and vanished in a moment. Looking back up at the sphere he then saw a beam of light coming from it, dodging it he saw it was his own attack. The attacks he fired at it before were now being redirected back at him.

"What the...this thing can use the things it consumes to fight?" No later than asking that he got the answer. The next attack that the Consumer launched was unmestakeable. A rainbow beam infused with 3 other colours, Celestia, Luna and Discords magic, was fired back at him. "Well that solves that mystery."

Daniel had to dodge whatever it threw at him. He didnt know if it was random or if it threw things at him in patter on in a certain situation. One minute it launched a bullet at him, the next moment it threw a truck at him and then a chainsaw which got a few awkward looks from him as it was still on and dug into the ground and out of sight. But soon it was mostly bullets that it was launching at him. With the ocasional axe or knife every now and then.

Daniel tried once again to crush it with a field. He managed to get it up and as it tossed objects at it, his field held. Putting his hands together he tried to crush it again but as he did, it lit up again and became even darker before it expanded and shattered the field. It now had visable waves on it like a gas giant would. Readying himself, Daniel waited to see what it threw at him next and what it threw next almost made his heart jump out of his skin. It was a Tsar bomb.

"Shit!" He said suddenly from fright as he put up a field and grabbed it. He needed to get this thing away before it accidentally gets set off. Looking up he saw the things was now throwing nukes at him. From small davy crocket nukes to those like the Mick bomb. While he held them in his field, he almost let fear get the better of him again as the Consumer now touched down on the ground. The ground of the planet was now starting to break and disappear into it.

"No...not here too." He said. Almost droping the bombs he held.

Daniel looked up and hopped what he had planned worked. He gathered as much strength in his arms that he could he threw the Tsar bomb along with around 8 other nukes as hard as he could into the sky. Intending to send them out of the planets atmosphere.

"You think the Crystal heart will do anything?"

"In times like this. All options must be tried. Even if the elements didn't work. We must keep trying." Celestia informed her as Twilight and her friends were looking for anything that could be a clue to where the crystal heart was. Cadence was asleep on the throne and Discord was...somewhere.

"Any luck girls?" They shook their heads.

"Not a one." Applejack told her.

Twilight headed to check the throne room. She saw no passages on the floor or any outlines on any of the crystals to indicate a hidden passage. "See anything Spike?"

"Nothing." Spike said as he looked under a rug. Twilight stomped her hooves on the ground in frustration. But as she looked up at the Crystal that made up the highest point on the throne, she remembered that Celestia had a Crystal similer to that one.

"Wait a moment." Looking at it suspiciously, she powered up a spell with her horn which looked like dark magic and upon firing it at the Crystal, a shadow was cast over the room and the floor opened up into a staircase.

Smiling, she decended the staircase. Spike was hesitant to follow her but she incisted he stayed at the top and went to tell the rest. As soon as he left the room, Twilight ran down as fast as she could, almost tripping up and falling right down the center. When she got to the bottom she was face to face with a door but as she tried to open it, it moved away from her.

"Stay still." She shouted at it angrily and after using Dark magic on it, she got it opened and ran in. But as she did she found herself at Canterlot. "What...but..." Looking around, her sight soon landed on Celestia who was writing a letter. Without even looking at her, Celestia shouted at her angrily.

"What are you doing here?"

"I don't know. One moment i waws in the Crystal empire and now-" She was cut off.

"And now you must leave." Twilight was getting confused as to what was happening.

"Where?"

"It doesn't matter Twilight. You failed the test." She said sternly.

Daniel had accomplished his goal. The nukes were thrown out of the atmosphere as any new one that it threw at him he grabbed it and did the same thing. He decided now was his time to attack. He gathere up enegy in his hand and with a hard punch, he launched it at the sphere. When it made contact it didn't break but it seemed to penetrate the sphere as the smooth surface caved inwards at the part he hit.

This victory was short lived as the Consumer became even darker, almost pitch black now and with a very audable thumping noise and a shockwave that blasted through the area, the swirls on it became more violent. The sphere now had a giant red spot on it but it kept growing in brightness and a moment later he was almost hit with a beam of intense heat. As it hit the ground it sent out a wave similer to a large earthquake as the crystal empire behind him started to crack appart.

"Am i doing any actual damage or just annoying this thing?" He started to wonder if his attacks were actually doing any damage as there was no visable changes besides it becoming darker and more violent in look and in attacks.

Daniel took a few steps back as the sphere covered more of the surface. Looking behind him he saw the Crystal empire and knew he needed to win, for the sake of his friends. But that fear in his chest was still there and he felt like his limbs were going to start shaking but he did his best to keep them still as he kept staring down his worst fear.

As the shockwave shook the empire violently. A crystal was shaken loose from it's place on the wall and landed on Twilight's head. Knocking her out of whatever spell was on her.

"That hurt." She felt around the area as a lump was forming. Looking back at the door she saw there was just a wall behind it but to be careful she closed her eyes. Thinking it over in her head she realised this door was showing her what she feared the most. She carefully casted a spell on the crystal on top of the door and when she heard it open again after it closed itself, she was happy to see it lead to somewhere.

"Twilight?!" Spike rushed down the stairs.

"Spike? You came down?"

"I couldn't let you do this all alone, you might need help." Smiling at his bravery, she turned back to the door.

"I think i found it." Rushing in she soon lost the smile on her face as all she saw was more stairs.

"Did you find it?" Spike asked.

"No...just more stairs." With a groan of disapointment, she started to climb up the stairs with Spike following close behind.

"What took you so long? This door was just at the bottom. And where are we?" Spike asked.

"The door made anypony who looked into it live out their worst fear."

"That's it? I was expecting worse than that. Like getting teleported to dungeon of compleat darkness with no light." Spike had more touble clumbing up the stairs than Twilight did so she used her magic to lift him onto her back and carried him up with her

"You rest up." She said softly as she looked up and saw no end the the stairs which caused her ears to drop. "This is gonna be a long walk."

"Climbing them would take too long. Can't you just teleport?" She stopped for a moment and felt stupid for not thinking that.

Looking up she teleported up 5 flights of stairs. Each time she did she looked up to see if the top was any closer, but after 12 teleportation spells, she still couldn't see the top. Spike looked disappointed and she didn't want to teleport anymore as she wanted to save her magic just in case it was needed later on.

"Is this thing endless?"

"No...there should be an ending to it."

"Come on Twilight. You are good with magic. Can you detect any spell at work or something? Is this more magic at work?" He asked as Twilight twisted her head to look up.

"Wait a moment." Twilight got a smile on her face.

"You know something. I know that smile of yours." Spike said with his arms crossed.

"Oh you bet i do. Brace youself." With that said, she used a gravity invert spell and started to slide on the roof. Laughing all the way.

"That's them all. To the throne room!" Sombra shouted as he and all the ponies under his control martched to the castle. The door to the castle he didn't bother to open as he blasted it appart with a magic attack. Behind it was 3 alicorns. One almost unconcious, and 7 other ponies.

"Princess Celestia. It feels like just yesterday i was battling you and Luna. How was her trip to the moon?" He said with a laugh but that was no joking matter to either of the sisters.

"Don't you dare mention that." Celestia said threateningly.

"Sorry, did i touch a nerve? A princess should learn to control her anger." He said with a chuckle. "But that matters not. I am here to take over, and this time you won't stop me."

"You do realise that if that thing out there keeps going, there will be no more empire, right?" Sombra just smiled and said something that crossed the line.

"Better they be off dead that under your rule." Celestia's anger broke and her mane slowly turn into one of fire.

"You really have no heart." She said with a twitch to her head. Sombra knew she wouldn't hurt the Crystal ponies and they would be good shields to use against her.

Sombra fired a black magic blast at Celestia who without moving, made a wall of fire appear and incinerated the spell. As she got a beam ready to fire. Sombra picked up a crystal pony and put her in front of him, he wanted to make Celestia and Luna suffer from last time.

Without a second thought, she redirected the beam to fire at the Sphere in the distance to avoid hitting her ponies who were under Sombra's control. What she didnt see was that the moment her beam entered the Consumer, the same beam came out of it and tried to hit Daniel. It left the snow withing 50 feet of it totally melted in a moment and the ground was scortched black as coal.

"You Coward! Fight me!" She screamed at him.

"Sure thing." The pony was thrown to the side and he launched a beam at her which was yet again, broken thanks to a soler shield.

"Sister. If you keep using that amount of power, you will lose control!" Luna's head was down a little as she was scared of that happening.

"If it means stopping him, then very well. Daniel should be able to stop me if he wins. Get the ponies out of here." Luna decided to follow what Celestia had requested and started getting the Crystal ponies in the room and taking them out of the room. Celestia made sure Sombra didn't stop her as she did so.

"I will deal with you later." He said threateningly to Luna as he turned into his mist form and as he tried to get Luna but he missed and enveloped a Crystal pony who was in the room.

"Damn it. You two are really a thorn in my side that i will be happy to remove. And after i deal with you, your pupil is next." He said with a grin and tried to do the same thing to Celestia, only for the mist to disperse in a mix of light and heat. Celestia's pupils were almost gone at this point.

"You will not hurt Twilight! Are you asking for me to kill you!?"

"So there's no point stopping anymore. Lest see how far i can push you before you lose it." Both of them then charged at each other.

Twilight and Spike had just finished their slide upside down on the stairs and as they reached the end, she made gravity return to normal. When they got up from their fall they soon found themselves face to face with the crystal heart. Twilight was delighted to see it but as she got closer, she was surrounded by Crystals which knocked the heart out of the circle, resulting in her being trapped.

"Where is it?" She asked in a panic after getting over the sudden shock from the Crystals raising up around her.

"Over here Twilight!" Spike called out to her. She smiled when she saw him holding it but then the wave of guilt washed over her as she realised she was too happy and became careless when she saw it. Which now put her in a position worse off than before. "You need to get out of there."

She tried to teleport out but she just ended up getting pushed back in. This is when she realised she was trapped for real.

"You need to get out of there. You will fail the test of you don't deliver the crystal heart." Looking out of her cell she saw black crystals covering the landscape.

"King Sombra almost has the whole empire under his rule. We can't waste anymore time, if we are not already too late. You need to do it Spike."

"Me?! Why!?"

"If there is still some time left. I won't get out before it ends, and even if i do, it will be too little left to do anything. You need to do it." Realising the amount of resposibility she was putting on him was probably too much for him, but right now Spike was their best hope for dealing with Sombra.

"But Twilight-" He was cut off.

"GO!" She shouted. In a panic he picked up the crystal heart and ran as fast as he could. Looking down he saw the ledge that looked out over the empire and saw Celestia and Sombra on it, with the other ponies down below, who were all wearing strange helmets with green glowing eyes.

As the sky seemed to evaporate like burning paper, the darkness outside which was Sombra's magic seemed returned to him. Spike knew that Cadence's magic had now run out.

"I am back at full power! Now we can really see who is- What?" Sombra didn't feel any different dispite knowing Cadence was now out of magic and the barrier was broken. "How?" Sombra looked up and saw Spike holding the Crystal heart. "You! Give me that!" He tried to go after him but Celestia stopped him.

"You and i aren't done yet!" She fired another beam at him. "Hurry Spike! There's still time!" Celestia shouted as her horn became covered with red fire which caused her pain but she smiled, as she might not need to use her full power now.

"OUT OF MY WAY!" Sombra charged at her, ramming into her head on. Causing them to lose focus and fall to the ground. Recovering in a moment, they stared each other down again. But the shockwave from the impact cause Spike to lose his balence and fall.

Sombra looked up again and grinned. He went upwards to the Crystal heart and as Celestia tried to follow him she found her back legs caught in a large amount of spiked crystals that made it hard for her to move.

"Watch out Spike!" She shouted in the royal canterlot voice.

"Too late. I win!" He shouts as he was moments away from the Crystal heart, only to find it gone as Cadance was holding it and Spike in her magic.

"Now Celestia!" Celestia fired up a orb of fire which shined brightly for a few moments before blue fire rained from the sky. It landed on the heads of the crystal ponies which caused no harm to them but the helmets they were wearing melted off of them.

Landing on the ground happily, holding the Crystal heart. She shouted.

"The Crystal heart has returned. Use it to destroy King Sombra for good." Looking over to Celestia, she saw her power down and her fiery mane go back to normal.

"Lets finish him." Cadence heard her say as they saw all the Crystal ponies glow with happieness as as they bowed down to the ground, the power in them went to the rest of the empire.

"No! I was so close!" Sombra shouted in a rage as he saw the empire and then the Crystal heart light up. A moment later a bright wave of energy started to spread around the Empire, destroying all the dark Crystals and moving towards Sombra. Seeing the cracks appear on his body, he cursed them with his last words. "I HOPE DANIEL FAILS AND YOU ALL DIE!" With those last words, he was broken into pieces and cast out of the Crystal empire.

"We...we did it!" Dash shouted with a smile of glee.

"Yes we did. Sombra is no more." Cadence and all the Crystal ponies cheered. Finally free from their tyrant ruler. They no longer needed to live in fear and could live happy and peaceful lifes.

But the cheer was cut short as a loud sound was heard which sounded like energy being syphoned. Looking to the source of the sound, they saw it was the crystal heart. The energy was no longer going all around the empire, but it was all being pushed to one area. Following the stream, their hearts almost dropped. The dark sphere was almost touching the outer houses of the empire and it didn't show any signs of stopping. Looking left and right, to their horror they saw no end to the sphere as it seemed to be growing, consuming the whole planet.

The Crystal heart started to spin around again and it sent out another wave of energy. The ponies watched in horror as the wave hit the sphere, only to break down in all directions and watch as the energy was consumed. All of them took a few steps back, their crystal glow fading from their bodies.

Daniel was at the from of the Sphere, putting up barriers and hitting it with all he had but nothing seemed to work, the barriers only slowed it down but didn't stop it and to top it all off, Daniel looked tired and he didn't look determained at all, if anything he looked like he wanted to run away.

"Daniel!" Twilight shouted as she made her way over to him with the rest of their friends and the princesses.

"Stay back! This thing can use your own attacks against you." Just as he said that, the sphere started rumbling and with a pulse from it, a blast just like that the crystal heart used was shot out but this one actually hurt him and his friends as it looked like they recived some burns and sparks appear on the horns of unicorns They were blown back, some landing on the ground and some into walls and Fluttershy almost got hit through a window but was saved by Discord.

She was overjoyed to see him to the point of almost crying, but she couldn't help but ask.

"Where were you?"

"Oh me? I was getting rid of Sombra's magic. That's why he was confused after Cadence's field failed and his power didn't increase. I was dealing with that."

"We could use you help here Discord. Do you have any idea how to stop this...thing?" Discord looked at the Sphere as it now consumed the outer houses and was making it was down into the center of the Empire.

"I have no clue what this even is." He said as he pulled one of his horns, causing a receipt to fall out of his ear. Taking it he looked at it and then the sphere. "It fits nothing on the list."

Daniel put up another field and tried to hold it. The sphere stopped but after a few seconds it pulsed and broke his field. It was now pitch black and no light could be seen reflecting off it.

"We need to do something. Throw everything we have at it!" Dash shouted

"Don't touch it!" Daniel shouted as she went to pick up a rock to throw at in a panic but as she went to get it, she was hit by a beam of energy and fell down to the ground, landing close to the Consumer. Dash picker herself up quickly but the tip of her tail touched the Consumer. Daniel watched as her tail started to break down and the rest of her followed suit.

"RAINBOW!" Applejack rushed to her but the moment she touched her Applejack now started to break down. She watched her hoof as parts of it broke off like a jigzaw and were pulled into the sphere.

Daniel stood there in shock. He had a hard time believing what was happening, his mind was blank. Twilight and the others watched as Dash had half of her face left and she looked over to Daniel. A single tear coming down her cheek as she broke down and vanished. Applejack looked back at him, sadness in her eyes as she was half gone.

"APPLEJACK!" Twilight shouted but didn't run up. Trying to use magic to help her friend, her horn spearked and failed her.

"Sorry ya'll." She said as she broke down. Her hat vanishing just before it hit the ground. Twilight was on the verge of breaking down and even Celestia saw this, going over to confort her student.

Daniel's shock was broken by the sound of crying. Looking back he saw Annabelle trying to calm down the ponies as they held their heads face down. Accepting their fate as the cuddled their foals. Saddned they would never get to live a full life.

Daniel's vision started to change and the faces of the ponies were replaced by the faces of people he knew back home. Faces he had seen as his home was lost. The hopelessness of the offices who failed to protect their citizens and the shattered dreams of families.

"Not here." Daniel looked down to the ground. His head and hands shaking with adreniline, fear and anger.

"Not here!" His breathing increased as he lifted his head to the sphere in front of him. Rainbow Dash and Applejack's faces as they broke down flashing in his mind. He was at his breaking point.

"D-daniel?" Fluttershy asked with fear in her voice as the ground under Daniel was starting to die, his legs enveloped in black fire. He was shivering like he was in the middle of a snowstorm as his eyes were starting to change, the pupil was almost like a slit and his entire eye was almost white as Shining's coat.

Putting his hands to his face he let out all the anger he had inside him and screamed at the top of his voice from the anger and sadness he had of losing 2 of his best friends and the threat of losing the rest. As he let his anger out she fire around his legs covered his whole body as the ground cracked under him. A pillar of darkness shot up to the sky and the clouds turned black. Taking on the apprence of something similer to black sludge.

As the Consumer approtched Daniel it stopped as the pillar of energy held it back. The sphere pulsed and tried to push the pillar back but it just made it bend a little before a larger amound of energy from the bottom shot up and knocked the sphere back a little.

Daniel clenched his hands into fists and let out one last scream. With that the energy spire vanished and all of them were left looking at Daniel in a way they had never seen before. His legs were up to his knees in dark fire and his arms were the same but they looked more like clawed gloves. He still wore his clothes but a trail of red fire went from his shoulders and met in the middle of his chest. Making a V shape.

His eyes were white and black with only pupil in the shape of slits and no irises. The outsides of his eyes, where he tearducks were, were a shade red too like the fire on his chest. His hair wasn't visable as it seemed to be shrouded in his hood which was now up.

"Are you-" Twilight started to ask but was cut of when Daniel's head suddenly jumped in her direction, causing her to stop talking and take a few steps back from him.

The Consumer pushed forwards but as it did, Daniel reached out and pushed at it with his fire covered hands. The palms of his hands turned blue as the energy was sapped from him but he was quickly replaced with more energy.

The Sphere pulsed again but as it did, Daniel narrowed his eyes at it and put even more energy into his palms. Lifing one back and clenching it into a fist. He punched it with a large amount of energy stored inside it and as he did there was a booming sound. A moment later he saw he punched a hole right through the Consumer. But it was quickly sealed up.

The Sphere stopped and raised further into the air. A barrage of nukes launching from it to Daniel. From his back emerged several tendrils made of fire and they peirced the nukes, breaking them down to the atomic level as they too fell down as vashished like dust. His tendrils then went to the sphere and pierced around it at multiple points. Glowing areas appearing around those points as the Consumer was broken down like it did to so many things before. Only for it to do the same as before and with a pulse, It restored itself.

Going up further, the consumer started to glow as it released the energy of a supernova towards the planets. Daniel raised his palm to it and put up a field again, stopping it just like Nature taught him. Who was smiling from the sidelines, her big smile and stars in her eyes showing pure delight at what was happening before her.

With his palm still out, he readied another energy blast and aimed it at the Consumer as it fired another blast as him too, which was one of his previous attacks. Daniel pressed his attack forwards, launching it but he kept his energy flowing through it as it easily broke his previous blast and hit the Consumer but he didnt stop there as he put more of his energy into the blast and as he did. To his great delight, he saw his blast come out of the other side of the Consumer.

As his beam subsided he saw the Consumer was now a ring as it slowly pulled itself together. This is when the faces on the ponies of the Crystal empire started to turn from hopeless to hopeful.

"You can do!" One shouted.

"Yeah. Don't give up!" The entire crowd started to cheer for him but he paid them not attention. Daniel didn't know why but he felt nothing. He felt no sorrow, no anger, nothing. All he felt was a fire in his chest and a desire to see this thing destroyed above all else.

As the Consumer got itself together again it started to act up. The swirling on it became even more violent as it went further up to the sky. It started to seem like it was breaking appart as some black smoke was coming off it and it also seemed to rumbled. The Consumer started to spark with power, now looking more like a lighting ball that a dark ball. It then suddenly stopped and it seemed to collapse down on itself for a moment before expanding again. This time it was red and the colour was becoming more and more vibrant as the ground under the consumer started to melt away into magma even with it about 100 feet into the air. The lightning on it was becoming more violent and the vidrations it was sending out were causing some of the ponies to stumble and fall over

Nature lifted a hand as she put up a field to stop the heat from cauing any further damage to the empire, leaving it between just it and Daniel. But as she looked up at the Consumer she got a bit worried as more colours started to appear.

"Nature. Don't tell me. That's the same attack you used on him before?" Blade asked.

"A hypernova. It's deemed consumption too risky so it's going to destroy this planet rather than consume it." She looked over at Daniel. Hoping he wouldn't have trouble stopping this attack.

All of the ponies looked in awe but also terror as the sphere started to glow more and more but the heat that it gave off never seemd to reach them as some saw with the melted rocks under it. But this didn't stop them for holding onto hope as the watched, holding their kids and some with smiles on their faces.

The Consumer went higher into the air and expanded more, almost taking up all of the sky in its expansion as it rose in luminocity for around 10 secounds before it went back to its normal size and with one last giant shining glow. It fired the hypernova at Equestria.

Daniel's eyes widened as he recognized what it was but he didn't feel any fear, but he did feel the desire in him to destroy this thing now burn brighter than ever. Raising both palms to the sky. He gather and held in all the enrgy he could before he let it all out in one large push towards the Consumer and the Hypernova.

As their attacks collided, a strong force shook the very ground they were standing as strong winds swept throught the city. So strong that even celestia had to dig her hooves into the ground, or the crystal road as best she could.

Daniel saw that his attack and the Hypernova were not going closer or further away from him. He needed more. He reached in to himself as far as he could and with the faces of Rainbow Dash and Applejack looking at him at the side like specters, he felt the boost he needed.

"I will avenge you." He told them in an almost emotionless voice as he looked back at the Consumer. "Die!" He screamed as he pushed with the all he had and the hypernova broke. His beam splitting it down the middle as it went across Equastria's sky. North-east and south-west the trails of the hypernova went and gave a spectacular light show as they did. But Daniel's attack hit the Consumer dead center and once again it penetrated right through it.

"Expand the blast." He told himself as he did so. The blast grew in size as more and more of the Consumer was engulfed in the expeled energy. As the last amount of it was covered by his attack, he saw a small light inside it before there was an explosion that even knocked Daniel back and the crystal tower was also pushed about half way out of the empire with some pieces of the top of it missing in the force of the explosion.

As the dust subsided, the sunlight shined down on them as small partials fell from the sky. Daniel watched as they fell down on the ground as to his shock,they started to take form. The houses that were consumed were phased back into existance and even the trees, dirt, hills and mountain.

"Did they-" He was about to ask himself but was cut off as he saw both Applejack and Rainbow Dash appear infront of him the same way as they left. Slowly regrowing as more pieces put themselves onto them.

"What happend?" Applejack asked, looking around and her eyes landed on Daniel. Taking a few steps back from the sudden surpise, she looked him over. "Daniel?"

"Y-yes?" He felt his power subside as his muscels became looser and the fire around him started to disperce. He started to feel emotions again and he almost started to cry when the realisation that the Consumer was destroyed finally hit him. "It's gone."

He tried everything he could to not cry infront of the crowd but a tear or two managed to get out of his tearduckts. He felt down to his knees and took deep breaths.

"It's gone." He said joyfully before he felt some tiredness was over him. But he managed to stay awake.

Nature smiled. Proud of her student and likely future lover as he achieved a great victory here today.

"Wow. He...done it. He has come so far in such a short time." Blade said, a smile on his face too.

"That he has. But i am worried. While we can deal with those Consumers. King N is a whole different story and with the destruction of a consumer. More than likely he will check this planet out in the future. Daniel deserves to rest and feel the triumph of this victory. But he will need to start higher level training soon."

They 3 of them all looked down to see Daniel surrounded by his friends who were all overjoyed that they won. They were even surrounded by a crowd of crystal ponies. Blade and Wisp-o left the area but Nature stayed behind a little longer. Looking over Daniel as she don't think she has ever seen him this happy before and even more so as Annabelle tackled him to the ground, both of them sharing a laugh.

"Rest up Daniel. Cause i am no longer going to go easy on you. In training or in...other things." She said with a giggle at the end.

Author's Notes:

Editor was busy but i said i would post it.